Project Information

Title: PWS Herring Survey: Plankton and Oceanographic Observations, Submitted Under the BAA 10100132-A

Project Year and Number: 2010: 10100132-A

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2010: 10100132, 2010: 10100132-B, 2010: 10100132-C, 2010: 10100132-D, 2010: 10100132-E, 2010: 10100132-F, 2010: 10100132-G, 2010: 10100132-H, 2010: 10100132-I

Principal Investigator (PI): Rob Campbell (Prince William Sound Science Center)

Managing Agency: NOAA

Assisting Personnel: None

Research Location: Prince William Sound

Restoration Category: Research

Injured Resources Addressed: Pacific Herring

Abstract: Herring stocks collapsed in the years following the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. The cause of the collapse remains highly controversial, and several empirical and theoretical studies have implicated different factors, including the spill, disease outbreaks, fishing activity, and ecosystem productivity. Herring stocks have not rebounded since the collapse in the early 90's and show no signs of recovery; similarly controversial, varied, and not necessarily mutually exclusive. The work described in this proposal is part of several collaborative proposals to survey herring in PWS, and seeks to monitor the environmental and food climate experienced by herring in order to address the hypothesis that carrying capacity can be limiting the recovery of herring. Observations of environmental conditions and plankton abundance over time will be integrated with observations of herring distributions and energetics, in order to assess how the food climate in Prince William Sound may structure herring populations in space and time.


Proposal: View (811 KB)

Reports:
Annual Report FY10: View (46 KB)
Annual Report FY11: View (650 KB)
Annual Report FY12: View (639 KB)
Final Report: Not available. For current status, please contact us.

Publications from this Project: None Available